Eyeglasses.



No. 841,568. PATENTED JAN. 15, 1907. P.J.PEGK.

EYEGLASSES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 26, 1905.

UNFEFE 'STAlE FAFNT @FFlQE Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented Jan. 15.190?

Application iled May 26,1905. Serial No. 262,358.

To all whom it In/1,1] concern."

Be it known that I, FRED J. Been, a citizen of the United States; residing at Ansonia, in the county of New Haven, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Imrovement in Eyeglasses, of which the folowing is a specification.

My invention relates to eyeglasses, and particularly to that class of the same which when in their roper osition in front of the eyes may be re eased l om the nose by swinging forward the lenses out of their, normal plane. In this class of eyeglasses the'longitw dinal axis of the lenses always remains in a substantially horizontal plane, which is essential in the case of lenses ground cylindrically to correct for astigmatism and other purposes. This movement of the longitudinal axis of the lenses in a horizontal plane is thus.

more advantageous than that wherein the lenses are moved in their normal vertical plane or in some other direction to release the guards from the nose,- since in the latter cases the longitudinal axis of he cylindrically-ground lenses would notalways be par allel with the longitudinal axis of the retina, which position, as heretofore stated, is essential for the correction for" astigmatism and other purposes, dependin upon the parallelism with the longitudina axis of the retina and that of the lenses. Heretofore in the art it has sometimes been the custom in using eyeglasses of this character apart from each other in their own plane against the action of a spring, or, as heretofore stated, to swing forwardly their outer edges, respectively, the said movement being resisted by a resilient bridge portion either in the form of a flatspring aloneor the same together with coiled or bended extremities.

It is'the purpose of my invention to con struct a pair of eyeglasses which. will release themselves from gripping the nose when the outer edges of the respective lenses are swung forwardly, as heretofore described. 7 In my device, however, the bridge-piece is rigid and not resilient and may be of the saddle type.

The guard or guard-pieces, which include the means for gripping the nose, are rigidly fastened to or integral with their respective lens-holders. Each guard-piece and its adjacent lens-holder will always be termed hereinafter in this specification and in the following claims by the expression guard and lens piece, lens-piece, or lens and guard piece in either the singular or plural number,

to pull the lenses as it is my intention that nothin in this specification shall be construed 0t ie'r than that each guard piece and its adjacent lensholder are one single and rigid element for which no proper definitive term-other than rthosefherein used can be found.

From the description-of the three parts de-' scribed above it may be readily seen that my invention consists of a rigid bridge having a rigid guard and lens piece journaled, respectively ,to each side thereof, together withyieldin means so connected to each pair of journa ed parts that the swinging of any of the said parts on their journal connections will always cop the longitudinal axis of the lenses in the same horizontal plane axis of its respective retina.

My invention further consists in the peculiar construction of the separate parts above mentioned and also in certain details and arrangements of the various arts, which will be hereinafter more specifical y described,

'reference being had to the accompanying drawings, on which like'reference characters denote corresponding parts.

In the drawings, F gure l is a perspective view of my invention. Figf 2 is a front elevation. Fig. 3 is a top plan view. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of one of'th gu ards and corresponding lens-piece. Fi Q 5 1s a perspective view of the bridge a1 no. Fig. 6 is an elevation of the pin and spiral spring. Figs. 7- and 8 are fra modification of the yie tion.

All of the views are made much larger than the dimensions of the device whensold commercially, for the purpose of illustrating clearly the'details.

"Referring particularly to Figs. 2 and 3,A is the saddle-bridge, which fits snugly over the front ofthe nose, the respective ends of which are bent upon themselves, and each extremity terminates in two lugs, one above the other. The two guard and lens pieces are referred to as a whole by the letters B B", respectively. Thus the invention is generally made up of the three parts AB B, all of which are integral or in one rigid piece in themselves and are held in yielding resistance to each other by the pin 25 and spring u. (Shown in Fig. 6.) As the two guard and lens pieces are of similar construction, the one being merely the reverse of the other, I will confine my more detailed description to ding journal connecthe saddle-bridge and its adjacent guard and mentary views of a with the longitudinal faces 7).

lens piece on the left side of said saddlebridge, in order that the guard and lens piece adjacent to the right of the saddle-brid e may be hereinafter described more easiy 1 and with less detail. As heretofore stated, each guard-piece and its respective lenspiece are integral or rigid the side of the nose, and their periniei'zersterminate, preferably, near their upper portions in the arms k and Z, which connect the nose-grips with the vertical journaharm i. The arms and Z may bebent or twisted to bring the same to any desired contour for the purpose of adjustment to the nose and to avoid contact with the bend inthe saddlebridge which passes between them, as will be hereinafter described. The vertical journalarm 7', terminates in two lugs h at its upper and lower extremities, the said lugs being bent inwardly toward the saddle-bridge and containing apertures for the post or pin t, whichlatter is screw-threaded at its lower eX- tremity. The lower lug 'h is internally screwthreaded for the purpose of receiving the external screwthre'ads on the pin it.

The guards are made out of fiat or ribbonlike stock, and the same may ,be sheared, bent or struck up, and twisted out of one single piece.

The lens'holder consists of a body portion havingan inner face 0 and top and bottom (The latter not shown.) The outer face of this body portion terminates upwardly and downwardly, respectively, in the rims q q, and from the middle of its side portions extend outwardly the side arms r 1", which arms are pierced for the purpose of taking a pin v. The inner end of the lens passes between the arms 7" r and has its inner edge in close contact with the outer faces of therilns q q and the outer face of the intermediate body portion of the lens-holder, (not shown,) as is the common method of fastening the lens to the lensholder. The outer face of the vertical journal-arm iof the guard is soldered to inner face 0 of the lens-piece, or the two nor, as by screwing the one to the other or making the whole out of one single piece of metal, or in any other manner, so long as they constitute one rigid piece. The saddle portion of the bridge terminates at its end adjacent to'said guard andlens piece in a vertical journaharm 0 similar to the vertical jourrial-arm i, but shorter and having its top and f which contain apertures which parts maybe made integral in any other man-- bottom portions bent outwardly to form lugs coincide with the apertures in the lugs h h, Through all these apertures in the two pairs of lugs passes the pin 25 through the spiral spring t;

placed between the inner lugs, the said. pin being fastened in position by the screwthreads, as heretofore pointed out, the upper end of the coil-springpassing in front of the vertical journal-arm t of the lens-piece and the lower end of the springpassing iii-front of the vertical journal-arm e of the saddlebridge, as shown in'Figs. 2-and 3. This description, as heretofore stated, has been confined to the saddlebrid e and its adjacent lens and guard pieceto t 1e left of the drawing, but is merely the reverse construction and manner of operationto thatof the right of the drawing. The saddle-bridge, like the guards, is also made out of flat or ribbon-like stock and may be sheared, bent, or struck up, and twisted out of one single piece, thus making the bridge strong and durable by the I elimination of soldered parts or parts other wise fastened together. The ends of the saddle portion of the bridge are bent rearwardly and outwardly, as shown at d d, and then inwardly upon themselves at c c and forwardly and inwardly again at b I), thus formin a loop or bend at each extremity of the sad 1e.-

bridge, terminating in the vertical arms e e. These bends, taken as a whole, extend rearwardly and outwardly and preferably down wardly between the upper and lower guardarms 7c land It Z in order to bring the vertical journal-pieces e 6, having out'wardly-extendin lugs f and f f, respectively, well forwar and toward the middle of the saddlebridge.

The construction of the guard and lens piece at the right is shown in Figs. 2 and 3, wherein m n respectively, represent the nose-grips, l" l the arms connecting the same with the vertical journal-arm i, which terminates at its top and bottom, respectively, in the inwardly-extending lugs h 71-", adjacent to which is the lensholder, its front side being shown at s and the upper and lower bands at q q and the side arms at 1" r. The right-hand guard and lens piece are connected up with the saddle-bridge by the pin t and spring a.

In Figs. 7 and 8 is illustrated a modification in which the vertical post 12 is soldered or otherwise secured at its middle portion to the face 0 of the body portion instead of extending through the upper and lower lugs 7b 71 as illustrated in the other figures. The up per and lower ends of the post t are jour naled in the lugsf f turned outwardly from the plate e of the bridge-piece. The relative movement between the guard and lens piece and the bridge-pioce is resisted by the spiral spring a u surroumlingftlje upper and lower extremities of the post t in the same manh'er as the spring u resists the relation.

tive movement between the correspondin parts in the other figures. The upper-an lower guard-arms k and. I? terminate, respectively, at their inner ends in the disks m and n and at their outer extremities terminate in the vertical arm i which latter-is soldered or otherwise secured to the rear of the body por- The top of the bod portion is indicated at p, and r r are t e side arms, and g g the rims, of the lens-piece. the brid epiece is bent upon itself at d b the said end terminating in vertical arms e and the outwardly-projecting lugs f f The above-described device is only a pre ferred form of my invention, as I ma utilize any other construction to accomp ish the same resuitas, for instance, bends in the saddle-bridge may be of different contour:

. The vertical pieces e and 2, respectively, of

the bridge may bein the form of a vertical post, which in turn may be journaled in the upper and lower lugs, respectively, of the lens-piece, or the up er and lower lugs of the lens-piece may be firought nearer together, and the saddle-bridge may terminate in single flat lugs instead of two lugs. 'For the guard-arms illustrated and described may be substitutedany other guards well known in the art, and for the spiral springs may be .substituted any other yielding resistance which will perform a like function, provided the same is independenfiand separate from the rigidsaddle-bridge and its adjacent guard and lens pieces. For the saddlebridge may be substituted any other type of bridge, even though the same be not in contact with the nose, so long as the same is rigid and independent of the yielding means between the extremities of the bridge and its adjacent guard and lens pieces. Further, all of these details may be interchanged wherever such interchange may be consistent with the vari ous constructions.

Having thus described the structure of my invention, I will now proceed to explain the operation thereof: When the device is not in use, each lens, respectively, will be thrown backto the position shown in Fig. 3, which position of the lenses is due to the resilient action between the saddle-"bridge and its respective guard and lens pieces. To locate the eyeglasses for use upon the nose, the lenses. respectively, are swung forward upon their adjacent pivotal and resilient connections with the saddle-bridge until the two pairs of guard-grips, respectivel are spread apartito such a distance as to achnit the nose between them. In this position the lenses are swung well forward. released; but the frame is held in position upon the nose by its contact with the saddle-bridge, which is a sufhcient support until the lenses are thrown back to a position in which the guard-plates grip the nose between them. In this position the lenses should be The end of.

The lenses are then in the same lane with each other and in their proper ocation in front of the eyes.

The lenses may be adjusted to accomplish this result'and also to'efiect their proper distance from each other by bending or twisting their respective guard-arms and the loops at the extremities of the saddle-bridge, all these extend outwardly at right angles to the plane of the lenses, or upwardly and outwardly,-

' or may be of any peculiar configuration so long as the same is rigid. Although I have illustrated and described two sets of guards of a peculiar configuration, together with a peculiar lens-holder adapted to-be integral with the same, yet any other construction of guards, guard-grips, and lens-holder may be utilized, provided they will perform the function of gripping the nose by a resilient connection between the, lens-holder and the eX- tremity of the rigid saddle-bridge.

Wherever I have used the expression guard and lens piece, I refer to one inte gral element consisting of the lens-holder and the guard arm or arms, as thecase may be, so that throughout the claims this expression is to be construed as one element alone and by itself. I have said that the guard and lens piece may terminate in a post instead of lugs, and-by this I mean a post either ponnected between two lugs or a post attached to its middle portion to the lens and guard piece, In the latter case of course the spring could not be coiled the entire length of the post, since the middle portion intervenes and .would thus necessitate two springs or one spring either below or above the junction with said guard and lens iece. Where I speak of fyielding connections] I wish to include africtional yielding connection, such as is common in the ordinary friction-journals, for instance, when the singleflat lug of the bridge piece is ,placed between and, in

frictionalpontact with the upper and lower in s of the lens and'guard piece.

am aware that the prior art discloses devices wherein the guards grip the noseby swinging forward the lens as herein described, and while not admitting that there is no invention in any of the peculiar details ofconstruction illustrated and described to carry out my invention, yet I do not wish to limit myself to these, but reserve the right to utilize any other Well-known means which will accomplish the same or equivalent results, and although I have used various expressions, .such.as bridge, lens and guard holderf, lens-holder, guards, guard-platei-;

arms, vertical arms,"pins, and opt known equivalents thereof, provided the same are within the scobe of my invention as set forth in the appended claims.

Having now described my invention and 5 the mannerof operation thereof, What I desire to claim and to secure by Letters Patentis 1. In a pair of eyeglasses the combination.

each end of the bridge respectively, spiral springs surrounding each pin between'the 2o lugs of the respective guard and lens pieces,

ner as to resist the swinging of the respective guard and lens pieces on their respective pins. 2. In a pair of eyeglasses the combination 2 5 with a rigid bridge-piece terminating at each end in two vertically-disposed apertured lugs, of rigid guard and lens pieces, each having two vertically-disposed apertured lugs, each pair of lugs on one piece being located between the pair of lugs on the adjacent piece, a journal-pin extending through the superposed lugs at each end of the bridge and resilient means adapted to resist the swinging of the respective guard and lens pieces on their respective journaled connections.

3. In a pair of eyeglasses the combination with a rigid bridge-piece terminating at each end in two apertured lugs, the one superposed above the other, of rigid guard and lens pieces each having two apertured lugs the one superposed abcve,the other, the'apertures of each pair of lugs on the respective ends of *the bridge-piece being inaline'ment with the apertures of the adjacent pair of lugs on the guard and lens pieces, a journalpiu extending through the apertures of the alined lugs at each end of the bridge respectively, spiral springs surrounding each pin between the innermost lugs the said springs being located in such a manner as to resist the swinging of the respective guard and lens pieces on their respective pins.

4, In a nair of eyeglasses the combination with a brid e having its extremities bent upon themselves forming rearWar(li=y-eXtending loops or bends and'flat vertical portions having outwardly-extending upper and lower apertured lugs, the said loops orv bends terminating at and integral with'the inner edges of said fiat vertical portions, of rigid guard and lens pieces and means for yieldinglyjournaling said pieces to the a'pertured lugs on the bridge.

l 5. In a pair of eyeglasses the combination 6 5 with a rigid bridge of rigid guard and lens pieces the said bridge having its ends terminating in one of the edges oi' vertical journalplates respectively the said plates having upper and lower apertured lugs and means located on said guard and lens pieces for yield 70 ingly journaling the same to the vapertured lugs in the respective extremities of the bridge.

6. In a pair of eyeglasses the combination with a rigid bridge of rigid. guard and lens 7 5 pieces, the said bridge consisting of a saddle portion and vertical journal-plates having outwardly-extending upper and lower apertured lugs the ends of said saddle portion terminating in one of the edges of said vertical 8o journal-plates respectively and the saidsad clle portion and vertical, journal-plates being sheared, bent and twisted out of one flat or ribbon-like piece of metal and means located i on said guard and lens" pieces for yieldingly 5 the said springs being located. in such a man journaling the same to the apertured lugs in the respective extremities of the bridge.

7. In a pair of. eyeglasses the combination with a rigid bridge, fa rigid guard and lens piece, thesaid bridgdconsisting of a saddle o portion having its" extremities bent upon themselves forming rearwardly and out-. wardly extending 100 s or bends the ends of which terminate intne respective edges of vertical journal-plates, the said journal- 95 plates having upper and lower outwardlyextending lugs and the said saddle ortion and vertical journal-plates being s cared, bent and twisted out of a single piece of fiat ribbon-like metal, and means including a post located on each guard and lens piece, for yieldingly journaling the said pieces in the a ertured lugs on the bridge.

8. n. a pair of eyeglasses the combination with a rigid bridge-piece, of a lens-holder having rims and side arms, a vertical journal-arm having inwardly-extending upper and lower apertured lugs and rearwardlyextending guard-arms, the said vertical journal-arm, lugs and guard-arms being sheared, bent and. twisted out of one fiat or ribbonlike piece of metal and rigidly attached to said lens-holder, means for journaling the said apertured lugs to the adjacent ends of the bridge-piece and resilient means adapted I to resist the swinging of the respective lugs on their respective journal connections.

9. In a pair of eyeglasses the combination with a rigid bridge-piece, of a lens-holder having rims and side arms, a vertical journalpiece having inwardly-extending upper and lower apertured lugs and rearwardly-extending guard-arms the said vertical journal'- piece, lugs and guard-arms being sheared, bent and twisted out of one flat or ribbonlike piece of metal, means including a post for jonrnaling said apertured lugsito the adjacent ends of the bridge and resilient means including a spiral 8 ring burroundirigsaid post the said spring eing located in such a I with a rigid bridge-piece, of a. lens-holder having rims and side arms, a fiat vertical journal-piece having inwardly-extending upand from its rearwardly-extending vertical j ournal-piece, lugs and guard-arms being sheared, bent and twisted out of one fiat or ribbon-like piece of metal, means for journaling the said aperturedlugs to the adjacent portions of the bridgeiec-e, and resilient means adapted to resist t e swinging of the respective lugs on their respective ournal connections.

11. In a pair of eyeglasses the combination with a rigid bridge-piece, of a lens-holder having rims and sidearms, a flat vertical j ournal-piece having inwardly-extending up per and lower apertured lugs and from its rearward edge having rearwardly-extending guard-arms, the said vertical journal-piece, lugs and guard-arms being sheared, bent and twisted out of one flat or ribbon-like piece of metal, means including a post for journaling per and lower apertured lugs rearward edge having guard-arms, the sald said apertured lugs to the adjacent ends of the bridge and resilient means 'including'a spiral spring surrounding said postthe said spring being located in such a manner as to resist the swinging of the lugs on the post.

12. In a pair of eyeglasses,the combination with a rigid bridge-piece, of guard and lens pieces each consisting of rims and side arms, a flat vertical j ournal-piece having inwardlyextending upper-and lower a ertured lugs and guards terminating 'in said journal-piece at their forward ends, the said journal-piece, lugs and guards being sheared,

bent and twisted out of one flat or ribbonlike piece of metal, and rigidly attached to the lens-holder and means for yieldingly journaling the said apertured lugs to the ad j acent portions of the bridge-piece.

Signed at Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, this 17th day of May, 1905.

' FRED J. PECK. Witnesses:

FREDERICK W. HOLDEN, ADA M. GESNER.

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